41.   The salaries of retired officials whose positions have been axed will be transferred to their respective department budgets for other expenditures.

42.   The presence of high-ranking retired American military officials would be extraordinary in Cuba, one of the last remaining battlegrounds of the Cold War.

43.   Two retired U.S. officials arrived in Seoul Tuesday after a trip to North Korea that the communist country said helped improve its relations with Washington.

44.   Washington too has ardently supported a resumption of dialogue, sending retired officials to both sides earlier in the year to gently nudge them toward talks.

45.   Also on the trip to Cuba were four retired military officials, who traveled to the island under the auspices of the Center for Defense Information.

46.   Lyman Kirkpatrick, a retired CIA official, died of pneumonia Friday at his home in nearby Middleburg, Virginia.

47.   On Friday evening Suu Kyi attended a dinner in Mandalay given in her honour by businessmen, retired officials and families of NLD members who remain in jail.

48.   Retired officials are even worse off.

49.   Six other countries will send lower ranking or retired officials.

50.   The Indian government proposes to take action against six retired officials for failing to provide adequate security for assassinated former premier Rajiv Gandhi, a newspaper reported Tuesday.